“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
alcohol
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Confessions of An Unredeemed Fan
Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse, who passed away nine years ago in Camden, London, at age 27.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Chasing Drinks with Lies, and Lies with Drinks
Katie MacBride recalls her last days using alcohol before getting sober.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Chasing Drinks with Lies, and Lies with Drinks
Katie MacBride recalls her last days using alcohol before getting sober.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
America’s First Addiction Epidemic
The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, astonishingly high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Have Gin, Will Travel
Alexander Chee got sick the first time he drank gin. We’re glad he persevered.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Poisoning
Alexander Chee reflects on his affinity for gin and how over the years — in its various cocktail permutations alongside vermouth in martinis and negronis — it has more than kept him company, becoming “almost a travel companion.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
“Madness and the Hurling of Furniture,” or How You Know It Was a Good Night in Ancient Greece
Andrew Curry’s thorough history of our relationship to and use of alcohol is informative, enlightening, and just plain entertaining.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
‘Booze Is the Oil in Our Motors’
Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard […]